Bobby Short portrait at the Cafe Carlyle. Soon after we landed we headed over to the Carlyle for a dinner show featuring OFAM favorite, John Pizzarelli and his wife Jessica Molaskey. Jonathan Schwartz was in the audience. Tom, Sara and I breakfasted in Brooklyn with Matthew from the William Brown Project. Pratt campus. We wanted …
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Archival Obituary: Blossom Dearie
Rahav Segev for The New York Times Obituary reposted from the February 8, 2009 New York TimesAnd a link to Verve records, her label. For starters, I recommend My Gentleman Friend and Blossom Dearie Sings Comden and Green.Listen to an in memoriam replay of Blossom Dearie on Piano Jazz from 2001.
In retromemoriam: Dorothy Loudon
Loudon Originally uploaded by agfachrome25 First entry in archive of people who have died recently (Alain Robbe-Grillet), who never die (Fred Astaire!), who shouldn’t be dead (Susannah McCorkle) or whom I forget had died (and than re-encounter via dvd ala Dorothy Loudon in Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnengie Hall).
From The Archives: American Popular Song
Transmission shall resume once Ellendale move is complete. In the meantime, here are some golden bits from the audio-visual archive.
Renting From The Movies: A Star is Born (1954)
If Norman Maine had never tracked down Esther Blodgett (and Esther Blodgett had never been rebadged as Vicki Lester), I’m sure Esther/Judy would have done just fine for herself singing jingles on the radio and decorating up her furnished single apartment at the Oleander Arms. I hybridize my version of the story peppering Esther’s apartment …
Out of the Past
From Irving Berlin’s lovely lyric, You Keep Coming Back Like a Song: From out of the past where forgotten things belongYou keep coming back like a song You keep coming back like a songA song that keeps saying, remember It’s too late for me to grow up in the nineteen forties–the historical site of all …
Not made out of wool…
Find of the Summer: Originally uploaded by agfachrome25. …but worthy of notice as an archival clothing artifact. If one were shopping on my movie set for items to drag down into the bunker before the apocalypse–this would be the album playing on the portable turntable.